AI + COGNITION
Technology Convergence
Each layer viewed from a defensive research perspective. The risk is the convergence, not any single layer.
Massive digital datasets — public records, social traces, commercial data.
Resolving actors and their connections across sources.
Inferring patterns and traits from observed behavior.
Natural-language understanding, summarization, reasoning over collected data.
Producing text, image, audio and video content.
Fabricating credible personas with generated media.
Goal-directed systems with tools, memory and planning.
Automated cross-platform publishing and amplification.
Sensing engagement, sentiment and behavioral response.
Updating models and outputs from observed response.

